Claudia De Martino is a researcher at Coris, La Sapienza, University of Rome; she received her PhD in Social History of the Mediterranean at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Ruth Hanau Santini is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at University of Naples L’Orientale. She has recently worked as conflict advisor at the World Food Programme. She has published widely on Italian and European foreign policy, Middle East and North African politics and security. She is currently working on food security; Central Sahel politics; and humanitarian principles after the war in Ukraine.